Subject: Sports (Page 30)

Naseem Hamed is naturally fit. I've seen more fat on a butcher's apron.

English boxing journalist & commentator

After indulging in some heavy, late-night research with scholarly friends, Bobby was driving back to his hotel, innocently enough, when he was sideswiped by several empty cars lurking at curbside.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

My nose didn't move… it definitely had position.

American basketball player

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded – accordion-style – back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

(1966 – ) American journalist & novelist

I was like a pig with a wristwatch.

American auto racer

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outburst of violence.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

horse racing trainer & commentator

Problem with [John] Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

(He) simply lost that sun-blown popup.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

baseball player

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

They usually have four or five dreams a night about coming from different positions.

Scottish jockey

The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck.

Canadian hockey player

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit.

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian

I guess I’d better send my fingers to Cooperstown.

baseball player

When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one forgets.

American baseball umpire

I want to be the fastest woman in the world… in a manner of speaking.

American woman drag racer

The only good thing about playing for Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

American baseball player

Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player